US 12,112,451 B2
Image processing apparatus and server
Katsushi Otsuka, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/907,831
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 23, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/012027
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 29, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/193649, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-054672 (JP), filed on Mar. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0141157 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 3/4053 (2024.01); G06T 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); A63F 13/355 (2014.01); A63F 13/52 (2014.01)
CPC G06T 3/4053 (2013.01) [G06T 9/00 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); A63F 13/355 (2014.09); A63F 13/52 (2014.09); G06T 2210/36 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
a super-resolution processing section that executes a super-resolution process for an inputted image on a basis of scene information indicating a feature in the image; and
a display control section that outputs, to a display section, the image having undergone the super-resolution process at the super-resolution processing section, wherein
the scene information is acquired in a process prior to a super-resolution process for a super-resolution process target image; wherein
the super-resolution processing section includes a scene analyzing section and a scene-information integrating section, and
during the acquisition process, the scene analyzing section sequentially outputs to the scene-information integrating section results of scene analyses of partial images of the inputted image, the partial images having a plurality of different resolutions, without waiting for completion of all of the scene analyses, and
when the outputted results are sufficient to generate the super-resolution image of the inputted image, the scene analyzing section abandons uncompleted ones of the scene analyses.